Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-30
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are disappointed because thcy cannOs
ascend to the top of the Washins 90
monument. Congress made no appro-
priGton for furnishing steam power to
run tie elevator. and unless IA special
y Casure il introduced at tie next ses-
sion The top of the SHIFT will be irlc-
cossible during another fiscal yea.
The engineers of heavy dorblc-
header tram saw child on the tack
rear tie village of Rock Glen, y. Y.
They vhistIcd for brakes, and when the
min was almost upon tie child one OF
the crqiree,s leapcd from his locomo-
tive, and, running ahead, caught the
infant from tie track. As n .eward the
mother las recorded the engineers
DeDe in the family Bible.
The first meerschaum pipe was carved
in tie early part of the Thirty Years
Wa, and Wallenstein is sad to have
bouehtit The true clay is to be pro-
cured only at Eski-Scher, in Asia
NJ uof, where there are large deposits,
and whence it is sent direct to the
manufactures at Ruhla, OF which there
are at present forty, employing almost
tle whole population Of the district.
One of the latest attempts to harness
the forces of nature for the service of
men is the adaptation Of a windmill for
the turning OF dynamo, the electricity
thus obtained being stored in suitable
batteries, and afterward used in
LIGHTING beacOns for the benefit OF the
maritime Interests. There is a station
Of this kind rear the mouth Of the
Seine, ard considerable. success has
been obtained.
Rool. stealing seems to have been
elevated into O regular trade in Paris,
fer according to a return drawn up by
the prcft lure OF police he nuLber Of
pCsons prosecuted for tbs offence
win he last two years has been Is,
of whom only five have been acquitted,
while ninety others have been ,en
tered = fine or imprisonment, ondtfe
remaining fifty are stu awaitiNg their
trial.
All the Hop Lees and Ching Lus and
Wun Lungs on TIE Chinese signs III
our streets DO not necessarily indicate
the nrmCs OF the owners. The CF'rese
are very fond OF naming their business
places and their mescantlle companies
with notices. Kwopg On Tai, for in
stance, means "Great, old, good, " or, as
We would say, 1.-The long establishedand
extensive company for the sale of arti-
C'es of high merit.
A rare fish, the opah or kingfsh,
has been caught OFF the Yorkshire
coast The specimen measured forr
feet three inches in length, and Is raid
10 be the most beaut 'ul in color and
form G. eny fish tlaS i0habits the
Moth Sea. The body IS blre end
black and bronze, studded with s'lve-
stars tie fins are vermilliol, and The
lis OF the eyes VIZ te. The fish has
been preserved and added to n collec-
ton of naturrl history specimens at
Grimsby.
A recent copy of the London Sport
ing LIE printed this Advertisement:
Bird singing, Windsor Castle, Wind
scr Street, Essex Rcad.-A free Fuet
handicap, three pair Of birds for leg
of mutton, will .ate place at the above
house on Saturday next. September3d.
Birds on the nail at fqlf-past 8 p. NJ.
Entries close and draw on Friday night
at 9 o'clock. n. B.-The irish giant is
now staying with the proprietor, and
may be seen daily at the bar"
Over 1000 people gathered in front
Of the Leicester (England) prison the
other day to witness the release Of Will
liam Smith, who had been undergoing
seven days imprisonment for refusing
to ALLOW his child to be vaccinated.
The chief members of the city govern
ment organized meeting opposite the
entrance to the Jail, end refused TO dis
perse when commanded to do so by the
police. Smith was welcomed with loud
cheering, and the meeting passed anti
vaccination resolutions and denounced
the authorities for sending a man TO
Jail for conscience sake. Two thirds
of the whole number Of children vac
cinated in England ard Wales are ope-
rated ON at public expense and only
one third by privase practitioners.
The nose is, if we are to believe NJ.
lie Bee, French sayant, gradually
losing its power TO discharge its tradi-
tioIal function in the case of the civil
lied peoples and when the sense of
smell yanishes altogether, as will in
fallibly be the case one day, he
tells us, the organ itself is bound to
follow its example sooner or later. 1t
is no doubt the fact, as he points out,
that the olfactory sense is ever so much
keener in the savage than in the civil
lied man, and it is reasonable TO con-
clude that the more We progressin civil
zation the duller the sense will grow. Its
complete extinction, NJ. lie Bee assures
us, is mere question OF time, and it Is
certain that nature never conseryes
ufeless organs When the nose loses
IFS power Of smelling the nose "must
co. Civilization is gradually making
us bald (about that there can be no
doubt whatever, and it will be hessy